Method and device for configuring and receiving common control channel

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a method for configuring and receiving a common control channel, and a device for configuring and receiving a common control channel. The method for configuring a common control channel includes: configuring a common control channel and a SS/PBCH block in a subband where a user equipment resides in a frequency division multiplexing manner, and transmitting the common control channel by using configured resources. Embodiments of the present disclosure may improve resource utilization by configuring the common control channel.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. A method for configuring a common control channel, comprising:
 configuring a common control channel and a Synchronization Signal (SS)/Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH) block in a frequency division multiplexing manner, wherein in a frequency domain, the common control channel is configured to occupy at least a portion of frequency domain resources other than frequency domain resources occupied by the SS/PBCH block; and 
 transmitting the common control channel by using configured resources. 
 
     
     
       2. The method according to  claim 1 , wherein said configuring the common control channel and the SS/PBCH block in the frequency division multiplexing manner comprises:
 in a time domain, configuring the common control channel to occupy a first symbol or the first symbol and the second symbol occupied by the SS/PBCH block. 
 
     
     
       3. The method according to  claim 1 , further comprising:
 configuring a mini-slot, wherein a number of symbols occupied by the mini-slot is a number of symbols occupied by the SS/PBCH block, and a beam used by the mini-slot is a beam used by the SS/PBCH block. 
 
     
     
       4. The method according to  claim 1 , further comprising:
 in scheduling information transmitted by the common control channel, indicating a location of a physical resource block occupied by a common control message bearer channel, or indicating an index of a resource block group occupied by the common control message bearer channel. 
 
     
     
       5. The method according to  claim 1 , further comprising:
 in scheduling information transmitted by the common control channel, indicating a location of a physical resource block occupied by user equipment dedicated data, or indicating an index of a resource block group occupied by the user equipment dedicated data. 
 
     
     
       6. The method according to  claim 1 , further comprising:
 configuring a demodulation reference signal of the common control channel for time and frequency synchronization of a user equipment. 
 
     
     
       7. The method according to  claim 6 , wherein said configuring a demodulation reference signal of the common control channel for time and frequency synchronization of a user equipment comprises:
 configuring an initial value of a pseudorandom sequence for the demodulation reference signal according to a cell identity and a synchronization beam identity, to cause an interference randomization among the demodulation reference signals between different cells or different synchronization beams. 
 
     
     
       8. The method according to  claim 7 , wherein the user equipment conducts a frequency domain autocorrelation on a channel estimated according to the demodulation reference signal, to obtain time synchronization; and conducts a time domain autocorrelation on the channel estimated according to the demodulation reference signal, to obtain frequency synchronization. 
     
     
       9. The method according to  claim 1 , further comprising:
 configuring the demodulation reference signal of the common control channel for beam training, to obtain a reference signal receiving power for a synchronization signal beam. 
 
     
     
       10. The method according to  claim 9 , wherein said configuring the demodulation reference signal of the common control channel for beam training comprises:
 configuring multiple subdivided beams in each synchronization signal beam to correspond to multiple ports of the demodulation reference signal, so that a user equipment measures the demodulation reference signal of the multiple ports, to obtain the reference signal receiving power for the subdivided beam and the reference signal receiving power for the synchronization signal beam. 
 
     
     
       11. The method according to  claim 10 , wherein the user equipment averages the measured reference signal receiving power of the subdivided beam corresponding to multiple ports, to obtain the reference signal receiving power for the synchronization signal beam. 
     
     
       12. The method according to  claim 10 , wherein prior to configuring multiple subdivided beams in each synchronization signal beam to correspond to multiple ports of the demodulation reference signal, the method further comprises:
 notifying a number of the multiple ports to the user equipment in a physical broadcast channel. 
 
     
     
       13. The method according to  claim 10 , wherein when the reference signal receiving power of the synchronization signal beam is lower than a predetermined power threshold, the user equipment conducts beam training again. 
     
     
       14. The method according to  claim 9 , further comprising:
 configuring a user equipment to conduct monitoring of the demodulation reference signal for at least a portion of frequency in a subband where the user equipment resides. 
 
     
     
       15. The method according to  claim 1 , further comprising:
 configuring each port of the demodulation reference signal of the common control channel to correspond to a plurality of adjacent subcarriers. 
 
     
     
       16. The method according to  claim 15 , wherein a particular subcarrier right corresponding to the port and two adjacent subcarriers of the particular subcarrier on the common control channel constitute a subcarrier group, and one physical resource block comprises four subcarrier groups, and corresponds to four ports of the demodulation reference signal. 
     
     
       17. The method according to  claim 1 , further comprising:
 configuring a quasi-co-location placement port for an antenna of a demodulation reference signal of the common control channel and an antenna of a channel state information reference signal, or configuring a quasi-co-location placement for the antenna of the demodulation reference signal of the common control channel and the antenna of the channel state information reference signal. 
 
     
     
       18. A method for receiving a common control channel, comprising:
 receiving a common control channel by configured resources, wherein the common control channel conducts a frequency division multiplexing with a Synchronization Signal (SS)/Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH) block, and 
 wherein in a frequency domain, the common control channel occupies at least a portion of frequency domain resources other than frequency domain resources occupied by the SS/PBCH block. 
 
     
     
       19. The method according to  claim 18 , further comprising:
 receiving a demodulation reference signal of the common control channel, to conduct time and frequency synchronization. 
 
     
     
       20. The method according to  claim 18 , further comprising:
 receiving the demodulation reference signal of the common control channel, to conduct beam training, and obtaining a reference signal receiving power for a synchronization signal beam.